BlogHer is the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online. It includes BlogHer.com, a community hub for bloggers with more than 54,000 members and 60 editors covering topics from politics, entertainment to food health and family, and the BlogHer Publishing Network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted sites reaching more than 15 million unique visitors per month. PicApp was selected as the only partner to be fully integrated into BlogHer in order to provide full size, premium and legal images to BlogHer publishers.

Read the full press announcement.

We are happy to announce the partnership and to have our application and images available to the BlogHer community.

The PicApp Team

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Accessing PicApp images will be done through the Tistory platform.
Read the official Press Announcement

We are very excited to launch the relationship, this is a first step in expending PicApp into Asia.
To meet with the anticipated demand for local content PicApp is and will be adding additional images in the next couple of weeks.

Read more- Daum’s press announcement.

Special thanks for the team at Daum Communication for their ongoing support and commitment.

To welcome our new partners and its publishers we have created this short introduction demo which walk thru the process of embedding a PicApp image in the Tistory Platform. Enjoy!

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This year, at WordCamp Toronto, PicApp was proud to not only sponsor, but also to have a representative at the event. David Peralty, whom you all might remember as the former Community Manager of PicApp stepped in and presented on our behalf. David is a well known blogger, and WordPress fanatic.

The presentation was entitled, “The Image Problem - Creating Captivating Blog Posts”, where he went through the issues with most methods bloggers use to add images to their blogs, and why it is important to have multi-media content embedded within your blog posts to drive attraction, page views, and focus.

“I went in there not knowing what the skill level would be of the audience, nor what they would be using WordPress for, but I assumed everyone would be publishing content, and with that text content, they should have some sort of images to help attract people to what they were publishing” - David Peralty (brandingdavid.com)

After David’s presentation, he fielded questions, not only about PicApp and finding free, legal images online, but about the blogging industry as a whole.

Over the course of the three day event, there were numerous talks on blogging, social media, building traffic, branding, and revenue to blogs being powered by WordPress.

Brendan Sera-Shriar, the lead organizer of the event did an amazing job. Logistically, these sorts of events are very complicated to put on, but in the end, everything worked out well.

We are looking forward to WordCamp Toronto 2010, and hope to see even more WordPress fans in attendance.

Picture of PicApp schwag:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitallifenews/3513299731/in/set-72157617789520543/

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we are very excited by the much love and great feedback we are getting to the picapp’s image serving design. seems that the new sleek look and the fact we reduced the ad’s intrusiveness (to zero!) are exactly what our publishers were asking for!
one important thing to mention regarding the new design is that the picapp image is now a real SEO steroid. the in-depth and professional metadata and captions we associate with the image , helps image search engines to better index the blog posts of our publishers. You all know by now that over 10% of the searches online are being conducted on image-search engines and much of the bloggers ( especially sport , celebs , news) traffic come from these images. here is a sample image search and how the SEO steroid looks like:

so there you have it - FREE SEO and the BEST content all together : ) enjoy!

Also -  the blogger\google team had recommended picapp as one of few leading sources where bloggers can grab copyrighted content and use it in a rightful way.

This is a very nice step forward in terms of the acknowledgment and acceptance of leading publishing platform of the fact that the more professional the blogging world become , the more access will bloggers need to rightful , updated , rich and copyrighted content. at picapp we have over 20 million of these files and thousands of new images coming everyday from the world’s best sources.

we are very proud to be in the same list with much bigger web successes (we will get there too!) and will continue to work hard to make the millions of bloggers and online publishers happy.

guys thx for the love!

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As a blogger you give much importance to how your post looks like, every pixel counts.
The new PicApp image not only looks much better & cleaner but it also gives you much more freedom to customize the image size & placement inside your post.
Just embed the code and you can modify the size & position with the blog editor.

We now show related thumbnails on top of the published image (instead of ads), these thumbnails lead to a photo gallery that shows additional related images to the one published.
This new look, beyond looking sharp, adds value to your post, as many users tend to browse through related images & will associate this experience with your blog.

Bloggers who prefer to show ads instead are welcome to contact us & we show ads instead.

And if that’s not enough, by using PicApp images, the images on your post are indexed by the leading search engines which will bring traffic to your blog. Just embed a PicApp image– we’ll take care of indexing PicApp images on your blog by search engines.

With an existing inventory of 20 million images (updated every minute), a new look, more freedom for editing & an added value for your blog readers, this is another exciting new step for PicApp & for our users.

Stay tuned as many more feature and improvements are coming soon.

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The first is rPulse, the site follows and reports on Hollywood and celebrity news while making it its mission to shy away from damaging gossip and rumors. To read more visit rpulse.com (previously known as perezrevenge.com)

Liz and her business partner are doing such a great job, we love your site!

The second is Forum Blue and Gold, I may be a bit biased here (living in LA for a couple of years and being a Lakers fan), but this is a great site, the site takes a straight forward approach and deals with what happens on the court, nothing else, you gotta love that focus- pure basketball.  Check it out at Forum Blue and Gold. Beyond great content I also got an interesting story on- why blue.

Keeping up with so many exciting sports events in March it just makes sense that our third publisher is another great sports site- The Ghostwriter, covering everything NFL and Football, check it our at Ghostwriter.com

Nicely done! it’s great to see such diverse and creative sites.

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The round table discussion was about the YouNoddle tool which provides calculated guesses for start ups valuation.  based on the short intro for the show , picapp is marked as one of the start ups that is on the track to success.  we also went and check what the Younoodle score thinks we worth and ….well , lets say we wish all of our last year investment charts would look like the chart they drafted for picapp.  I think this tool , as any other new tool  ( including picapp) still has a lot of place for improvements  and agree that if they will be able to hit 1 of 9 , it will still be a revolutionary thing.

we, at the picapp team,  still have lots of work and execution to do on our end as we must play in the start up game (we need to score 1 of 1 ) , but this video was , indeed,  a nice way to open Sunday morning with : )

thanks for Sarah Lacy , Scott Mecgrew and Maggie Shiels for including picapp in the show intro!

Eyal and the picapp team

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Now, let’s get interactive, compile images into a slideshow with a simple code.

Like it? grab it here- PicApp slideshow

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Following the event there will be a after-party at City Hall’s Rotunda with celebrity DJ- DJ ZTrip.

We are excited that PicApp is the official photo gallery partner for the evening.

What does it mean?

Photos taken by event photographers will be uploaded at the end of the event to PicApp.com.

Publishers wanting to use these images in their posts and on their sites are invited to visit picapp.com and view images by searching “crunchies”.

You are welcome to embed any of the images we have into your posts, to promote reader engagement, we will stream thumbnails of additional images from the event under each published image.

we look forward to reading your posts on Crunchies 2008!

The Picapp team

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